Antimicrobial Stewardship: A Potential Tool for Restricting Reserved Antimcrobials Use, Combating the Antibiotic Resistance, Adverse Drug Reactions and Safe Drug Administration in Patient Care

Ensuring the safety of drugs constitutes a critical component of healthcare, focusing on the detection, assessment, and prevention of adverse drug reactions (ADRs). Antibiotics are among the most precious and they have nite source, different from the other drugs. Antibiotics are the only drugs that do not directly affects the patients, instead they affect the growth and ecology of the pathogens that invade and also to the commensals ora. The therapy of antibiotics mostly depends on clinical conditions of the patients and the drug, however, it also depends on characterstics of organisms and the resident ora. But because of improper use of antibiotics, specially the reserved antibiotics, antibiotic resistance cases have been increasing along with serious adverse reactions while patient care. So to overcome this problems most of the hospitals have established antimicrobial stewardship programs, to optimize the benecial effects of antibiotics as well as minimise the negative consequences for both patients and community. The Pharmacovigilance program seeks to involve diverse stakeholders, including healthcare professionals, pharmacists, and the public, in the reporting of ADRs. Nevertheless, in developing nations such as India, there is a noticeable lack of public participation in reporting ADRs. The objective of this paper is to raise awareness about drug safety and adverse drug reactions , antibiotic resistance, that are associated with miss use of antibiotics and minimising the use of reserved antibiotics by implementing the antimicrobial stewardship program